Table 1.
Statistical capacity and available features of STABILITYSOFT relative to other codes and packages
| Statistical capacity/Features | SAS codes | R packages | STABILITYSOFT | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piepho (1999) | Hussein et al. (2000) | Akbarpour et al. (2016) | Dia et al. (2016) | Branco (2015) | Yaseen and Eskridge (2018) | ||
| Statistic | |||||||
| Mean variance component | X | X | |||||
| GE variance component | X | X | |||||
| Wricke's ecovalence stability index | X | X | X | X | |||
| Regression coefficient | X | X | X | ||||
| Deviation from regression | X | X | X | X | |||
| Shukla's stability variance | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Environmental coefficient of variance | X | X | X | X | |||
| Nassar and Huhn's non‐parametric statistics and Huhn's statistics | X | X | X | X | |||
| Thennarasu's non‐parametric statistics | X | X | X | ||||
| Kang's rank‐sum | X | X | X | X | |||
| Correlation coefficients | X | ||||||
| Ranking pattern of genotypes through all statistics | X | ||||||
| Calculation of statistics based on both types of data (row data and matrix mean data) | X | ||||||
| Features | |||||||
| Windows support | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Unix/Linux support | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Mac OS support | X | X | X | ||||
| Portable (without installation) | X | ||||||
| GUI (graphical user interface) | X | ||||||
| Offline usage capability | X | X | X | X | X | X | |